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Overview
Campden BRI supports food & drink manufacturers and retailers with training, technical advice and consultancy. You will work with leading technical experts across Product Innovation, Process Innovation, Training, Sensory & Consumer Science, Global Food Safety & Regulatory to ensure an excellent consulting service that adds value to the food and drink supply chain.
You will sit as part of the leadership team, working closely with all business units to deliver a great client experience and retain clients by growing relationships and supporting their aims. You will help deliver a service that is sustainably profitable for Campden BRI overall. You will collaborate with analysis and testing to build a cohesive client proposition that supports the needs of the food and drink supply chain.
You will lead change and be an advocate across the business to improve client service, operational delivery, and process efficiency. You will work with sales and other scientists to build and maintain an effective pipeline of profitable work for Consulting. Actively seek opportunities for cross-sell into other business units to further support clients and build long-lasting solutions to issues and opportunities.
Responsibilities
* Leads business delivery and development of profitable external consultancy business
* People leadership and talent development
* Direct technical consulting and external promotion of Campden BRI
* Financial planning and commercial optimisation
* Leading change
Requirements
* Experience and passion for client centricity
* Technical and consulting experience within the food and drink supply chain
* Degree in relevant science or technology-based subject (Chemical Engineering, Food Science/Technology or similar)
* Direct leadership experience within a food and drink company
* Successfully owned a P&L
* Strong commercial acumen and a strong track record of delivering within a consultancy environment
* Deep understanding of client issues across the food and drink supply chain in product safety, quality, assurance, innovation / reformulation, and process improvement
* Specialism in at least one area of product safety/quality, innovation/reformulation, regulatory or thermal / non-thermal processing
* Engaging people leader with the ability to align and engage teams across the business
* Deep financial understanding, particularly investment-based business cases
* Wider business leadership, particularly leadership team experience
* Strong relationship building skills both externally and internally
* Ability to see the bigger picture and create tactical plans to deliver business strategy and change
* PMI
* Reward platform with employee discounts and rewards
* 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
* Buy and sell holiday scheme
* A generous work save pension scheme, with employee contributions matched by the company up to 10%
* Culture focus around work/life balance (early finish Fridays)
* Subsidised onsite restaurant
Location & Availability
Our site is located in Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire. We would expect the successful candidate to be onsite 3 days per week when not traveling to meet clients.
Click 'apply now' or send your CV to recruitment@campdenbri.co.uk.
Seniority level
* Director
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Consulting
Industries
* Research Services
* Food and Beverage Manufacturing
* Food and Beverage Services
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